Mel,

 Hi..I  hope you are well.

 I came to BN hoping for your update but instead found your original biography which is in dark grey type on black on my browser ...so very difficult to read...which is why I missed it before...anyway...I did not know about all your health problems. Wow. You have been through the wringer as we say in the hills...or used to say.

 I think that many who are on this path have similar mental and physical...and maybe spiritual...curses. 

 And this is our way to see them...in others then ourselves.

 I was also very over weight. It also almost killed me. Doctors just wanted me to stay fat and take loads of drugs.

 I hate doctors.

 Party on
 Owlie